(023) Breakfast at Saxxon's

[waysoftheearth]

mushgnome wrote:
Highbough snaps from his trance, sighs, and follows Ulric to the kitchen.

How long will it take for him to refresh his memory of the trammel?

[waysoftheearth]

tonneau wrote:
Gustave appraises the somewhat shonky looking apparatus, glances back at the hobgoblins waiting outside the porticullis, and makes his decision. Then he coughs.

"Dieter", he yells, "give me a hand with this", and attempts to shuffle the unwieldy structure toward the ravine in whatever manner he can determine was intended by its doubtlessly crude creators.

"Anyone with baggage start grabbing our loot! It looks like we will have to travel light."

"Someone keep an eye on those buggers, and maybe throw a few coppers over the wall to keep them busy.", he finishes, struggling with the structure.

[waysoftheearth]

waysoftheearth wrote:

"You mean," Dieter grumbles under his breath, still watching the hobboes, "that I slipped and schlepped half of last night for bloody copper?"

And 1,700-ish pieces of silver.

[waysoftheearth]

waysoftheearth wrote:

"Perhaps we should toss what treasure cannot be secured down into the ravine, wait till they go to retrieve it, ambush the buggers with bow and arrow, and take back what's ours."

The ravine is at the back of the gatehouse.

The hobgoblins are out the front of the gatehouse.

They would be rather unlikely to even notice any treasure that was tossed into the ravine, unless you take great pains to make them notice you dumping it there. You would have to lug a chest out of the gate house (not east with the front portcullis in its ruinous state), then wander from the front gate to the edge of the ravine, then toss the chest (or its contents) over the edge. Tricky.

[waysoftheearth]

waysoftheearth wrote:

Highbough snaps from his trance, sighs, and follows Ulric to the kitchen.

How long will it take for him to refresh his memory of the trammel?

Approximately one hour of study is required.

[waysoftheearth]

mushgnome wrote:

Highbough snaps from his trance, sighs, and follows Ulric to the kitchen.

How long will it take for him to refresh his memory of the trammel?

Approximately one hour of study is required.

Highbough chooses to assist Ulric with sorting and packing of the treasure.

[waysoftheearth]

waysoftheearth wrote:
Very good... Ulric and Highbough go into the mess hall to sort the treasure, while Gustave and Wibert study the temporary bridge contrivance.

Olaf, Desmond and Koch are still watching the hobgoblin camp from the battlements.

Victor, Mads, Dieter and Boris are guarding the front gate.

Pelenwin is studying The Innocent Opus for inspiration.

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Professor P wrote:
KOCH will continue to keep an eye on the hobgoblin camp to determine if they are ready to make a move to attack or are forming some other plan.

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ehiker133 wrote:
Desmond says, "We don't need so many eyes up here watching; I'll go help them pack up the silver."

[waysoftheearth]

waysoftheearth wrote:

"Dieter", he yells, "give me a hand with this", and attempts to shuffle the unwieldy structure toward the ravine in whatever manner he can determine was intended by its doubtlessly crude creators.

Gustave steps out through the rear gate arch onto the brink of the collapsed stone bridge... observing as he goes that numerous rusty looking chains appear to be anchored to the raised portcullis bars...

From the narrow ledge at the rear of the keep he looks up at the enormous, timber contraption. It is much like a board walk folded into two, and pressed up tight against the keep. Numerous rusty chains hold it fast, and will have to be removed in order to "deploy" the bridging.

By Gustave's quick estimation it will be very heavy -- more perhaps that even he and Dieter could handle.

What is more, unbinding the chains will likely result in the whole kit collapsing!